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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Butter the Real Thing

Vintage Butter Churn
courtesy photobucket.com

Holding up a pint glass mason
jar before the first grade class, our teacher poured it half full of whipping
cream.

She was giving us a learning
experience that we would all participate in and then profit therewith.

Her instructions were for us
to take turns shaking the jar, and then pass it on to the child next to us.

She had been teaching us
about the farm, and all the animals found there.

Naturally a cow was one of the important
members of the farm and the cow produced milk which many of us drank at least a
glass a day.

Most of us were only familiar
with the glass bottles of milk left on our porch by the milk man, and on this
day we were going to learn about butter.

Each student faithfully shook
the jar and we watched carefully as small curds began to form at the bottom of
the glass bottle.

Finally our teacher informed
us that we had made butter from the cream and now we were all going to enjoy a
reward for our labor.

She produced a tray where she
had carefully set out, small crackers, one for each member of our class.

Carefully our teacher took a
small knife, and spreading a little dab on each cracker, she then passed them
around to each of our class mates.

I remember thinking how good
real butter tasted, because up to then, at our house we were only served
margarine, a butter substitute.

Today my thoughts are about
the real thing, be it faith, hope, love, or even religion.

Although I realize Christians
must walk by faith, there are many times when I want to see and feel and know
the real Jesus.I do not want to settle
for a substitute faith in the false be it an idol, king, ruler, or even another
god of some sort.

How can we know truth and the
real from the false?Not always, but
often it is by an experience.We have participated
in seeking, learning, and maybe shaking the jar a bit.

Then there is the taste.Oh that sweet taste, when we enjoy the real
and we know - - that we know it is real.

Psalms 4:8O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

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I am a widow as of 04/14/17 when my husband Robert went to heaven. I am an ordained minister but am retired except for an occasional wedding or funeral. Sharing about Jesus is a passion and that is why this blog has been set up. I write true stories with a spiritual twist.